East Falls station
East Falls | |||||||||||||||||
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Location | 3600 Midvale Avenue East Falls, PA, 19129 | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°WCoordinates: 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W | ||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus: K | ||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1856[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | November 18, 1912[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Electrified | February 5, 1933[2] | ||||||||||||||||
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East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. In FY 2013, East Falls station had a weekday average of 625 boardings and 553 alightings.[3]
Though little more than a pair of platforms with open shelters and a trailer, it serves as a replacement for a former Reading Railroad station[4] which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982.[5] It contains a staircase leading to Cresson Street and the station on the north side of the viaduct over Midvale Avenue, and a pedestrian crosswalk with a traffic signal exclusively for that crosswalk on the south side.
Station layout[]
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Inbound | ← Manayunk/Norristown Line toward 30th Street or Penn Medicine (Allegheny) | |
Outbound | Manayunk/Norristown Line toward Elm Street – Norristown (Wissahickon) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Street level | Exit/entrance and parking |
References[]
- ^ a b "East Falls Station Opened". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)
- ^ Images of former East Falls Reading Railroad station from 1912 and 1978
- ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
External links[]
- SEPTA Regional Rail stations
- Former Reading Company stations
- East Falls, Philadelphia
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1856